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Thanksgiving, ice art, Eid al-Adha (18 images)

26 November

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SPC John Dever of Chicago, IL with Blackfoot Company 1st Battalion 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment has Thanksgiving dinner while standing watch in a guard tower in Matakhan, Afghanistan. The soldiers of Blackfoot were served pre-packaged turkey breasts, cranberries, potatoes, stuffing and pie. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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The Kermit the Frog balloon floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

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Mark Hurt of the Eastern Michigan University Marching Band plays trumpet during America's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit on Thursday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

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Participants walk down a street during America's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit on Thursday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

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Members of the Conestoga High School marching band of Berwyn Pa., march down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway during a Thanksgiving day parade in Philadelphia on Thursday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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An Aztec dancer prepares before the sunrise ceremony at Alcatraz Island during the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering in San Francisco on Thursday. The Sunrise Ceremony is a commemoration of the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the “Indians of All Tribes.” (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)

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Horses are silhouetted against the fence that separates the Fair Grounds Race Course from their neighbors in New Orleans, La. on Thursday morning. They were returning to the barn area after morning workouts on the track. (AP Photo/Alexander Barkoff)

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Germany's Vanessa Low competes in the women's long jump during International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation World Games 2009 in Bangalore, India on Thursday. More than 800 physically disabled athletes from 43 countries are participating in the week long event. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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A man looks at Chinese ice sculptures, including two dinosaurs in front of the Brandenburg Gate, at the "Ice Art" exhibition on Thursday in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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An Afghan boy tries to sell roasted corn ahead of the Eid festival on Thursday. During Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, Muslims slaughter camels, cows or sheep, with the meat later being distributed to the needy. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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A couple snaps a souvenir photo with a mobile phone in front of a tunnel of illumination at an amusement park in Tokyo on Thursday. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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A Kashmiri sells delicacies ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in Srinagar, India on Thursday. Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha to commemorate God's gift of a ram to substitute for Abraham's impending sacrifice of his son and is considered the most important holiday in the Islamic calendar. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Bangladeshis heading to their homes to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, travel on the rooftop of an overcrowded train at Tongi station, Bangladesh on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

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A woman walks in front of a painting in remembrance of the victims of last year's Mumbai terror attacks in Hyderabad, India on Thursday. Ten militants with assault rifles fanned out across Mumbai last November 26, attacking a train station, hotels, and other targets, paralyzing India's financial capital and shocking the country, killing 166 people. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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Employees of the Trident hotel, one of the sites of last year’s terror attacks, offer prayers during a memorial service for victims on the first anniversary of the attacks in Mumbai, India on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Macedonian Army gunship helicopter MI-24 performs a live ammunition firing by night in the military training area Krivolak in central Macedonia, on Thursday. Army helicopters and special force officers participated in a military drill as a part of the presentation of the regional military training area Krivolak. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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A Muslim pilgrim prays on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Striking train workers of Korea Railroad hold signs during a rally against government policy in front of the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday. About 16,000 unionized workers went on an indefinite strike early Thursday morning after negotiations with the management over financial belt-tightening and working conditions fell through. The signs read "Fulfillment of a promise between labor and management." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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